History of computers

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    Charles babbage

    He was the creator of the Analytical engine and the creator of the difference engine.
  • James Babbage's difference engine

    James Babbage's difference engine
    Was not released on the market but was all designs were by James Babbage in June 14th 1822. Used to do calculations that humans would make mistakes on.
  • William shockley

    William shockley
    He was in a group that created the transistor. He died in 12th of August 1989.
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    Konrad Zuse

    He created the first programmable computer that used brinary numbers. It was used from 1935 to 1938, it was never released to the general public.
  • Z1

    Z1
    The Z1 computer was the first programmable computer that used brinary numbers.
  • Alan turning's 'Turing Machine'

    Alan turning's 'Turing Machine'
    The Turing Machine was the first computer to run on Binary numbers and the person who created this machine was Alan Turing. The machine would insert the numbers into squared boxes on a computer and those were the binary numbers.
  • Havard Mark I, Designed by Howard Aiken’s

    Havard Mark I,  Designed by Howard Aiken’s
    Was built in February 1944, Funding was given in 1939 February and idea of this machine is in December 1937. Was never released to the general public due to the size of it. Was a computer that calculated equations, numbers together at much speed with complete accuracy. One of the programmers of the Havard Mark 1 include Grace Hopper.
  • vint cerf

    vint cerf
    crowned as one of the fathers of the internet, in 1982 he worked with the MCI, heled the MCI to become the first commerical email service that was linked to the internet.
  • Colossus machine built by Thommy flowers

    Colossus machine built by Thommy flowers
    Was never released to the public but was built in 1943 ( was shown to be working on February 5th 1944). Was used by the British to break German coding,
  • ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

    ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
    Built in 1946 and at released to general public to use . Designed and created by created by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. A improved computer that had 5000 operators per second, it can solve a large class of numerical problems
  • steve Wozniak

    steve Wozniak
    The co founder of Apple ( he created Apple with Steve jobs). Apple is a massive company and is currently the worlds most well known company.
  • Richard Stallman

    Richard Stallman
    He is well known for trying to help other people gain freedom over the internet. He wanted people to be able to view, study and watch things all over the internet freely, He created the GNU project in 1983, the GNU project was a project that was based on a free software meaning that anyone can view and use it.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    The founder of Apple, aplle is the biggest company currently. Stee jobs is the creator of many phones phones such as teh I phone 4 etc. He died of cancer but is still a person many peopel look up to.
  • Eric Schmidt

    Eric Schmidt
    He was interviewed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to run Google and he made cut. He rewrote Lex. Lex was a program that made lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system.
  • Time berners lee

    Time berners lee
    He is the creator of the World wide web. The WWW is the thing that you type in before the website. WWW enables you to look at diiferent things around the world. He Was also the first person to succesfully talk to a HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) client through the internet.
  • Bill gates

    Bill gates
    The CEO and creator of Bill gates, he is one of the most influnetial in the computer industry.
  • douglas englebart and the mouse

    douglas englebart and the mouse
    He created the first ever mouse, made out of wood. He came up with does ideas.
  • larry Page

    larry Page
    Larry page is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He co founded google with his friend Sergey Brin.
  • Sergey Brin

    Sergey Brin
    He is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur, he co founded google with his friend Larry Page.